Cinema-Teatro Medica Palace
Via Montegrappe 9/2,
Bologna
40121
Via Montegrappe 9/2,
Bologna
40121
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Architects: Galliano Rabbi
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Cinema Medica
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
3905.126.3826
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The city of Bologna in central Italy is probably the most cinephile of all Italian cities and the Cinema-Teatro Medica Palace is its biggest classic one-screen cinema. The Cinema Medica was designed by architect Galliano Rabbi and built in 1925, opening in 1926 with 2,500 seats, which makes it certainly one of the oldest surviving cinemas in Bologna having resisted the competition from new multiplex cinemas built in the outskirts.
The cinema is a bit off the main high street of Bologna - Via Indipendenza - and situated under the archways of a building which also houses the Palace Hotel. The Cinema-Teatro Medica Palace is situated in a traditional cinema area which until recently boasted some of the most elegant and traditional cinemas of the city, like the Cinema Fulgor, Cinema Imperiale and the Cinema Metropolitan - all by now transformed into stores or closed.
The Cinema-Teatro Medica Palace is one of the last cinemas in this central area. It was remodeled in 1950, again to plans of the original architect Galliano Rabbi and has a large foyer, where you can sit down awaiting admission into the theatre. The auditorium is rather modern in style with black walls and very comfortable black seats. The auditorium is very vast both in length and breadth and includes an elegantly curved balcony, which, alas, was always closed when I frequented the cinema. The cinema has always been a premiere cinema - in Italian “cinema di prima visione” and in general shows the most “appealing”, i.e. crowd-attracting - films of the moment but at times also gives smaller productions a chance. The cinema is well frequented and won the “golden ticket” - biglietto d'oro - in the season 2010/11 for being the one-screen cinema with most ticket sales of a city of between 200,000 and 500,000 inhabitants.
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Alexander Neubauer
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MEDICA Palace via Montegrappa, 9 – Bologna DIGITAL 2K + 3D Capienza: 886 posti in pelle + 4H Schermo: silver 18,00m x 7,70m CINEMASCOPE 1:2,35 Videoproiettore Digitale 2K: CINEMECCANICA CMC4-D2 Server DCI 2K: DOLBY DSS100 Tecnologia 3D: MasterImage con occhiali passivi Audio: DOLBY DIGITAL CP650EX Proiettore 35mm: doppio proiettore CINEMECCANICA ZX4000H Servizi Cinema: BAR
that’s means only 886 seats.
Sembra chiusa. Sito chiuso, orari di programmazione non si trovano.
Looks closed. Website closed, showtimes are not to be found.
Also notice the poster frames in the street view is empty.
When I visited in September 2016, with the Cinema Theatre Association, the Medica Palace was very much open. The manager told me a dispute with the landlord had led to the closure in 2015, but that had only been a temporary situation and the cinema soon re-opened.